Muammar Qaddafi

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New York, May 27, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murder in Benghazi of a prominent Libyan
journalist on Monday and calls on authorities to hold the killers to account. Muftah
Bu Zeid, the editor-in-chief of Brnieq, a
privately owned weekly, was well-known for his criticism of Islamist militias
in the country, according to news
reports. He reported receiving threats in the days before his death.

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New York, February 19, 2014--A recent wave of anti-press violations,
including repressive legislation, abductions, and physical attacks, threatens
to set back the steps Libya has taken toward democracy since the revolution
that removed the late Muammar Qaddafi from power, the Committee to Protect
Journalists said today.

A
judge in Tripoli on August 21, 2013, lifted the travel ban placed on Amara al-Khatabi,
editor of the daily Al-Ummah, and ordered the return of the journalist's
passport, al-Khatabi's lawyer, Ramadan Farag Salem, told CPJ and human rights organizations.

New York, March 8, 2013--Gunmen stormed the
offices of a television station in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Thursday
amid a protest outside the station's studios, according to news reports. The gunmen
abducted at least five journalists and media workers, the reports said, although
all were released within 24 hours.

New York, July 17, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists
welcomes the release of two Libyan television journalists who were kidnapped on
July 7 after covering the country's first elections in decades.

Abdelqadir Fassouk, a reporter and cameraman for the private Misurata-based
Tobacts TV station, and Yusuf Badi, a cameraman for the same station, were released
on Monday, according to news reports. The journalists were headed back to the
station after covering the country's historic parliamentary elections from the
city of Mizdah when they were kidnapped near the city of Bani Walid, news
reports said.

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New York, March 10, 2011--Atleast seven journalists
covering the conflict in Libya are unaccounted for, according to research by
the Committee to Protect Journalists, which expressed deep concern today about
their well-being. The most recent to go missing is Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, a
correspondent for London's Guardian newspaper, whose disappearance was
reported today.